Kaiser Permanente Commits $63M to Support Contact Tracing in California
August 13, 2020
As COVID-19 cases surge in the state, a public-private partnership will deploy hundreds of workers in clinical settings to help slow the spread, in coordination with local public health departments Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit, integrated health care system, is committing $63 million to support California’s contact-tracing work in order to reduce the number of Californians who contract COVID-19. This support, in the form of charitable grant funding to the Public Health Institute, will create agile community health teams hired from within communities that have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 to support the critical work of local public health